Re: create temp table .. on commit delete rows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: create temp table .. on commit delete rows
Date
Msg-id 20078.1160691455@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: create temp table .. on commit delete rows  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: create temp table .. on commit delete rows
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> David Fetter wrote:
>>> Should something notice and raise a warning when people create a
>>> TEMP table and have AUTOCOMMIT on?

> Added to TODO:
>         o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
>           DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction

That is *not* what was suggested, and it doesn't seem very useful.  The
problem really comes when one uses a temp table in autocommit mode, not
at creation time.

The problem with the original suggestion is that the backend can't do it
because AUTOCOMMIT is a notion that exists only in the client-side code.
And the client can't do it very well because it'd have to parse SQL
commands, and even with that it wouldn't see CREATE TEMP TABLE commands
issued inside functions.
        regards, tom lane


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